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Chirk Castle (Welsh: Castell y Waun) is a Grade I listed castle located in Chirk, Wrexham County Borough, Wales, [1] [2] 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from Chirk railway station, now owned and run by the National Trust.
Wrexham County Borough is in north-east Wales, straddling the ancient border earthwork Offa's Dyke.There are 107 scheduled monuments in the county borough. The 29 Bronze Age and Iron Age sites are mainly found to the west of Offa's dyke, and are in the main burial mounds and hillforts on the uplands.
Caernarfon Castle Dolbadarn Castle A reconstruction of Holt Castle in 1495. Wales is sometimes called the "castle capital of the world" because of the large number of castles in a relatively small area. [1] [2] Wales had about 600 castles, [3] of which over 100 are still standing, either as ruins or as restored buildings. The rest have returned ...
Chirk Castle. The disturbances in Wales caused the Lancastrians to have Chirk removed from office in January 1315. But when the Principality returned to peace, Chirk was re-appointed to post of Justiciar of North Wales in October 1316. [18]
Main approach of Chirk Castle, the family seat for 400 years.. Richard Myddelton (by 1509–1577/78), the first MP for Denbigh Boroughs, was a son of Fulk Myddelton of Llansannan, himself a younger son of David Myddelton, receiver of Denbigh during the reign of King Edward IV, was for many years governor of Denbigh Castle.
Chirk War Memorial is a war memorial in the Welsh town of Chirk, now in Wrexham County Borough (until 1974, Chirk was in the historic county of Denbighshire and then in the county of Clwyd until 1996). The memorial stands on a traffic island at the east end of Station Avenue, at its junction Church Street.
In Wales, the authority for listing under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 [2] rests with Cadw. This is a list of the 90 Grade II listed buildings in the community of Chirk , in Wrexham County Borough .
Brynkinalt Hall (Welsh: Neuadd Bryncunallt; or simply Brynkinalt (Welsh: Bryncunallt) [i]) is a Grade-II* listed private property, built in 1612, near Chirk, Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The hall is surrounded by an estate including 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2) of agricultural land and 400 acres (1.6 km 2) of woodland.